Warracknabeal
thumb|Warracknabeal Hotel Warracknabeal ( ) is a town in the Australian state of Victoria, located in the Victorian wheatbelt. Situated on the banks of the Yarriambiack Creek, 330 km northwest of Melbourne, it is the business and services centre of the northern Wimmera and southern Mallee districts, and hosts local government offices of the Shire of Yarriambiack. At the , the Warracknabeal township had a population of 2,359.
Key facts
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- town
- Australian place.name
- Warracknabeal
- Australian place.state
- vic
- Australian place.image
- Warracknabeal War Memorial & Post Office.JPG
- Australian place.caption
- Post office and war memorial
- Australian place.lga
- Shire of Yarriambiack
- Australian place.use_lga_map
- yes
- Australian place.postcode
- 3393
- Australian place.pop
- 2,359
- Australian place.elevation
- 113
- Australian place.maxtemp
- 22.2
- Australian place.mintemp
- 8.6
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thumb|Warracknabeal Hotel Warracknabeal ( ) is a town in the Australian state of Victoria, located in the Victorian wheatbelt. Situated on the banks of the Yarriambiack Creek, 330 km northwest of Melbourne, it is the business and services centre of the northern Wimmera and southern Mallee districts, and hosts local government offices of the Shire of Yarriambiack. At the , the Warracknabeal township had a population of 2,359.
==History== The original inhabitants of the area around Warracknabeal were the Wotjobaluk tribe of Aboriginal people. The town's name is believed to derive from an Aboriginal expression meaning "place of big gums shading the water hole". The earliest European settlers in the area included Andrew and Robert Scott, who established the first run of the name.